Study blames obesity for high cost of health care

Regarding this article in USA Today:

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/07/study-blames-obesity-for-high-cost-of-health-care.html

Study blames obesity for high cost of health care

Re:  Mind numbing stats on diabetes

I learned these recently, courtesy of the American Diabetes Association:

• 1 in every 3 children born after 2000 will get diabetes
• $1 of every $5 spent on health care in the US is spent on diabetes or related illness
• Within 20 years diabetes will crush the US health care system.

So… what is being done to stop the madness?  Not a lot, in my humble opinion.

I know what I am doing.

Everyday I get to go to work with the conviction that I am doing something that can make a difference in the lives of children.

This Saturday I spent all afternoon giving free bottles of First Juice at a fundraiser for a children’s museum.  Lots of happy faces– and not just on the children– on the parents, too.  Less sugar, organic, won’t spill, not sweet tasting– I handed almost as many Peach+Purple Carrot bottles to parents as to kids.  And I just finished a Banana+Carrot myself.

I am fighting.  Fighting childhood diabetes and childhood obesity.  That is what I am doing.